Re: PL/pgSQL 2

From: Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Joel Jacobson <joel(at)trustly(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PL/pgSQL 2
Date: 2014-09-03 15:09:19
Message-ID: 54072F1F.8020107@joh.to
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On 9/3/14 5:05 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 07:54:09AM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>> I am not against to improve a PL/pgSQL. And I repeat, what can be done and can
>> be done early:
>>
>> a) ASSERT clause -- with some other modification to allow better static analyze
>> of DML statements, and enforces checks in runtime.
>>
>> b) #option or PRAGMA clause with GUC with function scope that enforce check on
>> processed rows after any DML statement
>>
>> c) maybe introduction automatic variable ROW_COUNT as shortcut for GET
>> DIAGNOSTICS rc = ROW_COUNT
>
> All these ideas are being captured somewhere, right? Where?

I'm working on a wiki page with all these ideas. Some of them break
backwards compatibility somewhat blatantly, some of them could be added
into PL/PgSQL if we're okay with reserving a keyword for the feature.
All of them we think are necessary.

.marko

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